riazarbi/ib-headless repository overview

⁠Interactive Brokers Gateway Docker

IB Gateway running in Docker with VNC over ssh

⁠Usage

The basic idea is that you run a standalone container running the IB gateway, and then interact with the IB API via a docker private network.

⁠Example

⁠Build Image

docker build --tag riazarbi/ib-headless:no-controller .

⁠Create network and run container

docker network create ib
docker run -it --rm --name broker --network ib -p 2222:22 -e SSH=<GITHUB_HANDLE> riazarbi/ib-headless:no-controller

⁠VNC in to container to log in

From your laptop:

sh -C -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o "UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null" -L 5900:localhost:5900 root@server -p 2222 &
sleep 1
vncviewer localhost:5900

This should launch a VNC session where you can log in to IB. Note that you've only exposed ssh on the broker docker container, and that you need to have a private key to log in.

⁠Launch a container on the server to interact with the API

docker run -it --rm --network ib random_container